Haha, that's unfortunate for your username then! I actually prefer photoshop, although I don't know if my style counts as "digital painting". Photoshop has some more useful tools, but not enough to justify buying it.

true dat! there was an article that recommended programs like fireAlpaca for digital painting, as its tools are more designed for it, while photoshop does magic with photos, photo-manipulations and things like that but fireAlpaca is taking time to get used to after photoshop, esp due to the different hot keys ><